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"And eternal delight and deliciousness will be his, who coming to lay him down, can say with his final breath -- O Father! -- chiefly known to me by Thy rod -- mortal or immortal, here I die.

"Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.

"Delight, -- top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God, and is only a patriot to heaven.

"Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges.

"Delight is to him whose strong arms yet support him, when the ship of the base treacherous world has gone down beneath him.

"Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

"Is not the maintruck higher than the kelson is low?

He dropped and fell away from himself for a moment; then lifting his face to them again, showed a deep job in his eyes, as he cried out with a heavenly enthusiasm, -- "But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the...

"Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!"

"Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation!

"Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonour!

"Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness!

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!

"Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale!

"Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty!

"This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.

"That was it!

"To preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood!

"And what was that, shipmates?

"Then God spake unto the fish; and from the shuddering cold and blackness of the sea, the whale came breeching up towards the warm and pleasant sun, and all the delights of air and earth; and 'vomited out Jonah upon the dry land;' when the word of the Lord came a second time; and Jonah, bruised...